The Screening Itself
What happens in the room — the Q&A, the audience, the experience that changes depending on who is watching.
- What a Q&A Is Actually Worth
A forensic look at what a post-screening conversation does and does not add — when it reframes what you just saw, when it flatly contradicts it, and when the right move is to leave before the microphone comes out.
- The Audience You Watch With
The same film screened to a press crowd, an industry crowd and a public audience is three different social experiences — this piece describes what each room feels like and how it shapes your reading of the film in the moment.
- The Principled Exit
A piece of practical advice — and a mild argument — about when walking out is the right decision and how to do it without becoming the disruption you came to escape.
- Sitting Through the Credits
An argument — half-serious, half not — for why the credits are part of the film and what you lose by leaving early, alongside a frank account of the cases where the argument collapses entirely.
- The Case for the Back Row
A photography-led piece built around images of auditoria shot from the rear — makes the practical and perceptual argument for why habitual festivalgoers gravitate to the back, and what that seat position does to how you experience the room as well as the screen.